Multi-instrumentalist Amy Denio, right (Kultur Shock, Tiptons Sax Quartet), deploys her unusual vocal talents in “explorations of voice and environment” involving “simple electronics” at Good Shepherd ...

That's the name of a new album of baroque chamber music from the Irish bassoonist Peter Whelan and Ensemble Marsyas. There is no exclamation mark, no hint of irony. The cover art shows an elegant 18th ...

The solo oboist gets a workout in this concerto for oboe, bassoon, violin, and cello by Czech Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Gottfried van der Goltz ...

It reverberated across continents and centuries. It harnessed lesser-played instruments, most prominently a Baroque bassoon. It even breathed stirring sound into a long-slumbering composition. “From ...

Music of the Baroque will kick off its 51st season in September with Baroque in the Park, an open-air performance on the stage of the Pritzker Pavilion on September 10 in association with the ...

When you go to the symphony, chances are your eyes are mostly on the conductor and the violins. The bassoon? Not so much. The instrument has a dry, woody timbre with a slightly clogged-up resonance, ...